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We were told that the Carnaval parties in Florianopolis, Brazil do not compare to the scale of the ones in Rio, and if that’s true, all I can say is that the ones in Rio must be amazing! In Floripa, the Carnaval parties started on Friday and went until Tuesday (just before Ash Wednesday). There were many ways of celebrating carnaval here:

All the nightclubs had international DJs playing (Armijn van Buuren, Kaskade, Dave Seaman, and Erick Morillo to name a few) and crazy cover charges! It was US $150 for guys at Erick Morillo.

There were a lot of street parties and beach parties. The beach near us, Pantano do Sol, had a live band, food and drinks for 4 nights straight.

In Centro (downtown), there were 4 nights of samba parades. They started at 9pm and went until after 5am in the morning! Each samba school would parade through a set of bleachers and boxes to show off their music, dancing, costumes, and floats. They were judged and the winners came back on the final night.

The parades were pretty spectacular and we’ve included some of our photos here. Enjoy!

Florianopolis is great. I’m happy to report that boredom has not yet set in. We’ve been out exploring the island and its many beaches, hiking trails, towns, restaurants, etc. The people are very friendly, and while we’re in a sleepy fishing village, it’s exactly the break we needed from Buenos Aires for awhile.

We have noticed a tremendous number of differences between Brazil and Argentina, which include the people, food, culture and language. We initially thought that since the two countries were neighbors, we’d see more similarities, but the differences are striking. We’ll write more about that in another post, but one example is the language. For some reason we thought Portuguese would sound more similar to Spanish, but we quickly learned that our rudimentary Spanish did not get us far here. The two languages sound nothing alike to us! Even when the words are the same (about 89% of the language overlaps or is close), they’re pronounced much differently. Luckily, having our basic Spanish does help though as a lot of people can understand the basics and can figure out what we’re saying. English has been pretty useless for the most part here.

We’ll be back with some more updates soon, but for now, here’s some pictures from my time here.

P12 Beach Club - Saturday night

P12 Beach Club - Saturday night

P12 Beach Club on a Saturday

P12 Beach Club on a Saturday

A private beach

A private beach

Another stray that followed me

Another stray that followed me

A view from the trail

A view from the trail

One of the many interesting insects in Florianopolis

One of the many interesting insects in Florianopolis

A view from the walk to Pantano do Sol

A view from the walk to Pantano do Sol

A view from the deck

A view from the deck

The house

The house

Our house

Our house

Bar do Arante - famous for the notes that were left for other travelers before electricity

Bar do Arante - famous for the notes that were left for other travelers before electricity